Wave Rider is a perfect addition to Andrea's distinctive and somehow very Australian canon. With its beginnings in 1999, the Andrea Keller Quartet have been said to create music that is "a marker of just how good Australian jazz is" (Bev Stapleton 2006). Their previous albums have won an ARIA award (2002), an Australian Jazz Bell Award (2008), plus a further two ARIA nominations (2005 & 2007). In 2012 the AKQ won the Australian Jazz Bell Award for Jazz Ensemble of the Year.